Quotes About Creativity

I love a black wedding dress.

I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.

When I decided to get married at 40, I couldn't find a dress with the modernity or sophistication I wanted. That's when I saw the opportunity for a wedding gown business.

Design is about point of view, and there should be some sort of woman or lifestyle or attitude in one's head as a designer.

I like the gritty parts of fashion, the design, the studio, the pictures.

We forget something fundamental as we read: Every sentence could have been otherwise but isn't. We can't see all the decisions that led to the final shape of the sentence. But we can see the residue of those decisions.

People clamor to tell their stories in words. This doesn't make them writers, Nor does it make their stories matter.

The essence of real creativity is a certain playfulness, a flitting from idea to idea without getting bogged down by fixated demands. Of course, you don't always get what you thought you were asking for.

noble winged pig.'" "Yes, the spirit of programming.

From this era on, I think invention will be the parent of necessity – and not the other way around.' That was easy for Sherkaner Underhill to say. He didn't have to engineer the science into reality.

It's hard to be bored when you're as stupid as a line.

modern states realized that success did not come from having the largest armies or the most favorable tariffs or the most natural resources—or even the most advanced industries. In the modern world, success came from having the largest possible educated population and providing those hundreds of millions of creative people with credible freedom.

So much technology, so little talent.

Half-assed programming was a time-filler that, like knitting, must date to the beginning of the human experience.

Writing is architectural. Letters become words, and words become sentences, and sentences become paragraphs, and paragraphs become chapters and chapters become books.

The foundation for the practice of the social art of homemaking lies in understanding the human being, not only with regard to physical necessities, but also in connection with psychological and spiritual needs, as well as expressions and qualities that live in everyone. Learning to live creatively with other people means learning about all our wonders, weaknesses and glorious potential. But it also means learning to recognize our dependence and influence on the totality of the world around us.

For you and everything alive inside of you, I write, and write.

Podemos por ello afirmar que la enfermedad, de alguna forma, le conduce a la poesía, o prepara el camino para su total desarrollo.

The poet is a little god.

Necessity is the mother of invention. Danger is the father of preparation.

Perfection bores me, in art, in music; most of all, in people. Luckily, perfection is rare.

A writer should always have some profession which brings him into close contact with the reality's of life.

Writers are archeologists of themselves.

meaning, creativity, flexibility, and a sort of rapid prototyping not just of jobs but of entire careers.